The plenary session of the Communist Party of China Central Commission for Discipline Inspection ended on January 6, with top leaders including the CCP chief Xi Jinping in attendance. However, high-ranking officials like Minister of Industry and Information Technology Jin Zhuanglong, who comes from the aerospace system, were absent from the meeting.
According to Chinese state media reports, Xi Jinping delivered a speech at the meeting, with members of the Politburo Standing Committee Li Keqiang, Zhao Leji, Wang Huning, Cai Qi, and Ding Xuexiang in attendance. Li Xi, a member of the Politburo Standing Committee and the Secretary of the Central Commission for Discipline Inspection, presided over the meeting. Leading figures from various departments of the CCP Central Committee and state organs, as well as heads of relevant units in people’s organizations and the military, participated in the meeting.
However, according to China’s state television news broadcast, Minister Jin Zhuanglong of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, who hails from the aerospace system, and several senior military generals were absent from the aforementioned meeting.
Hong Kong’s “Sing Tao Daily” reported that Jin Zhuanglong was supposed to sit between the director of the National Ethnic Affairs Commission of the CCP Pan Yue and the Minister of Science and Technology Yin Hejun, but he was nowhere to be found.
On January 2, Chinese Premier Li Keqiang conducted a research visit in Jinan, Shandong, where Minister Jin Zhuanglong did not accompany him.
Jin Zhuanglong has a background in the aerospace system, having previously served as the director of the Shanghai Aerospace Bureau, deputy general manager of China Aerospace Science and Technology Group, general manager and chairman of Commercial Aircraft Corporation of China, and executive deputy director of the Office of the Central Military-Civil Fusion Development Commission.
Recently, several officials from the aerospace system have encountered issues.
Zhang Hongwen, a member of the Anhui Provincial Party Committee and Secretary of the Hefei Municipal Party Committee, has been “missing” for nearly a month. He had a long tenure at China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, serving as the director of the corporation’s Third Research Institute and later being promoted to vice president of the corporation in 2019.
Hong Kong’s “Ming Pao” recently reported, citing sources, that Zhang Hongwen is another aerospace system senior official who has encountered problems recently.
Additionally, Zhang Hongwen has been absent from seven consecutive important meetings.
Former Secretary of the Hunan Provincial Party Committee and current Deputy Director of the National People’s Congress Education, Science, Culture and Health Committee, Xu Dazhe, was absent from the CCP National People’s Congress Standing Committee meetings in November and December. Xu Dazhe, who also comes from the aerospace system, has previously served as general manager and Party Secretary of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation.
Several directors of the Shanghai Aerospace Bureau have also fallen from grace. Zhu Zhisong, a former member of the Shanghai Municipal Party Committee and Secretary of the Pudong New Area Committee, who previously served as the director of the Shanghai Aerospace Bureau (China Aerospace Science and Technology Group Eighth Institute), has already been removed from his position.
Yuan Jie, former chairman of the China Aerospace Science and Industry Corporation, and Dai Shunlun, former Secretary of the Mudanjiang Municipal Party Committee in Heilongjiang Province, both former directors of the Shanghai Aerospace Bureau, have also faced setbacks.
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